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Obligations I n Medical Crises: Treatment and Protocols
Author(s) -
Duran Jane
Publication year - 2015
Publication title -
metaphilosophy
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.475
H-Index - 35
eISSN - 1467-9973
pISSN - 0026-1068
DOI - 10.1111/meta.12156
Subject(s) - argument (complex analysis) , intervention (counseling) , psychological intervention , work (physics) , medical treatment , law and economics , public relations , business , political science , medicine , economics , medical emergency , engineering , nursing , mechanical engineering
This article adduces several lines of argument to try to analyze the need for certain sorts of interventions in medical crises. The recent Ebola crisis is taken as exemplary, and other similarly serious medical situations requiring intervention, such as the endemic presence of Valley fever in parts of California, are alluded to. The overall contention is that our duties in medical crises may be somewhat stronger than previously constructed by analysts. The work of Kuhse and Singer is cited, and the article concludes that there are special moral obligations to respond to international medical emergencies when they arise.